During my lifetime, Western societies have enjoyed innovations that have immensely improved public health and the quality of life as well as economic and social advances, food and energy security as well as technologies that have provided for an affluence far beyond that which our grandparents would ever have dreamt possible. And outside of the West, global trade and technology transfers have brought economic opportunities and social development upon once impoverished nations. And yet the companies and individual risk-takers who have delivered these advances are widely despised by a large number of activist influencers, stakeholders, storytellers and policymakers.Almost a year ago I started this series on how industry was paying a heavy price in terms of public trust and regulatory fairness at the hands of an aggressive coordinated NGO/activist/political campaign strategy. I called it the Industry Complex because I could not understand why a) industry was not responding to the nonsense
ANALYSIS: After the latest outrage by eco-extremists invading the Prime Minister s home, some Tory MPs wonder if much tougher measures are required to stop them.
They signed a pledge of allegiance with the eco-activist group, including promising to support and vote for legislation to make the UK net zero by 2025.